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Everything in Final Fantasy XIV is a weeb trope. Are you insane?

I gave an example: the entire Final Fantasy XIV video game. I even explained why it may become difficult for someone immersed in weeb culture to find the weebness in that example. On the other hand I can't imagine any weeb tropes in EQ back when I played it. Monks definitely didn't give off...

You know, weeb shit. It's all over the game. They couldn't hide it if they tried, and they don't try. If you have trouble seeing it, you might be too immersed in weeb shit to distinguish it from normal western fantasy. Even when asian devs try to go grimdark/gothic fantasy, they can't...

Not really off-limits more like there's nobody advocating for the character the same way Filoni/Favreau are advocating for all the clone wars/rebels characters and KK/Hidalgo are trying to keep their sequel trilogy characters relevant. She's almost certainly gonna be a sister/inquisitor from...

Highest savage I did was O12s for the mount back when it was current. I did Eureka and ran tons of Baldesion Arsenal runs when that came out, which is probably one of the most fun raiding/endgame content I've ever done in any MMO. I did the relic grinds at the end of shadowbringers and got...

I agree and I never disputed that even when Chris brought it up earlier. But it doesn't answer the question: as great as the dungeons and the raids are, and I agree they're superbly crafted and challenging at the right levels, do you think it's enough to earn the subscription fees of someone...

If they don't enjoy curated storytelling in MMOs, or worse hate JRPG tropes and aesthetics, then it won't be the best storytelling in RPG history. It'll be the most irritating letdown after 400-500 hours of fedex and collection quests in any game. You're not doing the player a service by...

Yes, but then it turns into how many countermeasures you can have on board before you run out and overwhelmed by incoming weapons. Whichever side overcomes the other first wins or loses everything. That's why magazine depth is the most important dimension in contemporary and future combat...

If this wasn't coming out of the Kathleen Kennedy side of Lucasfilm I would've thought it's a perfect way to bring in the SW:Rebels animated stories into live action to flesh out where the Mando/Boba Fett series. But it's probably gonna end up supporting the sequel trilogies somehow. A big...

Do you think the dungeons and raids are good enough to sustain the interest of players who are irritated by playing through the MSQ at all? If not, then you're not disagreeing at all. I don't see how folks who are turned off by weeb culture and repetitive fetch/kill quests of the MSQ are being...

LCS was an absolute clownshow. The doctrine that lead to its existence is at fault, not procurement or design or execution. The notion that we would never have a naval peer and would spend the next few decades patrolling littoral waters was absolute dumbshittery. We could've had the FFGX in...

I'd honestly cut my losses and try a different game; FFXIV is just not that "gamey". Just like all the recent Final Fantasy games, the designers understood that overly complex game systems often get in the way of their storytelling and they decided long ago to build their franchise around the...

A long time. Maybe never. That's my point, if you're looking for the sort of game where you tweak and optimize rotations and prepare your character to handle challenges outside your "power band", it's just not that sort of game. It's more of a Final Fantasy story-driven experience than a...

I could totally see them going the way of FFXIV and turning the endgame about player housing and cosmetic/mount shit. If they hired some zoomer "analyst" to write up why FFXIV is stealing all their subs, it would pretty much tell them switch to a casual endgame with gay housing and fashion...

Nah the main questline from 1 to max level, the "MSQ", really is the game. You need to look at it as a single-player Final Fantasy game with an MMO attached to it. It's arguably the best Final Fantasy game in the whole franchise if you're into it. There isn't really much of an endgame in the...

Isn't that the puma's cannon? Haha it's not gonna be any more cost-effective in that use-case than it is on the puma. It already looks like each burst costs about 10x more than each drone it's mostly missing.

Haven't logged into the game for a couple years so that was the only screenshot I could find. But yeah I did Eureka while it was still new and enjoyed it quite a bit so I didn't mind that part of the grind. I enjoyed BA so much I ground out like 5 sets of relics just for an excuse to keep...

Got a couple relics but PAL easily the best-looking. Only screen I have is from behind hah:

Looks like an antifa arrest lineup.

Plus it's more or less his show anyway.

The thing is Mara Jade would fill in a very large gap in the JJ Abrams rendition of Luke: how did he become so bitter and dissolute about the Jedi. When we see Luke in Book of Boba Fett, he's neck-deep in the same Jedi orthodoxy that caused Anakin's fall and made Ahsoka quit the order. Even...

Currently the only way back from the EU graveyard is through Dave Filoni. Unfortunately Mara Jade simply doesn't have an advocate in Lucasfilm, not in the Hidalgo/Kennedy side and not on the Filoniverse side. Filoni is expending all of his pull to bring his babies into the mainline live action...

That would be interesting if it turns out that the "Mandalorian" referred to in the show's title actually ends up being Grogu.

Yeah fuck that. Gary Goldman was the original writer of the Western/Horror script for Big Trouble in Little China but he's probably dead by now and he only gets credits for the characters. WD Richter was a pretty famous writer/director from the 80's that was noted as a reliable "script rehab"...

Oh cool, it's a whole LOTR show filmed from the Orcs' perspective.

The Writer's Guild actually has very specific contract attribution rules for that. He should've gotten credit as "Based on the Characters by" if they used his characters or "Based on the Novel by" if they used events from his books. Lucasfilm has actually done both for other authors in Mando...

This is gonna be controversial because so many people adore the original like I do but: Big Trouble in Little China. Big Trouble in Little China was originally written as a horror western movie, a sub-genre called Weird West. It was so bonkers for the 80's that it went through a few rewrites...

Considering how they femmed up the rest of the show, a frumpy Cortana is just about par for the course.

That was part of the grievance from what I read.

Yep, like I said earlier I think it pretty much confirms that Pedro Pascal played chicken with his contract and Lucasfilm called his bluff. They ended up filming half a season of Boba Fett because they had some characters and stories to develop anyway and when Pedro Pascal buckled, they went...

Robert Rodriguez directed the finale and I suspect he will redeem himself. I don't think anyone except Jon Favreau could've directed the first act much better than Rodriguez. I don't like how those eps turned out, but he didn't have much to work with.

Nintendo would summarily execute anyone who suggests that Samus get narrower hips, smaller titties, blue hair and no lipstick to avoid the male gaze.

For Luke that's absolutely what they did anyway. In fact for this episode there were three credits for Luke, the two body doubles and Mark Hamill himself. I was specifically referring to the facial animations; especially the lip-synching on a few scenes. Deepfaking ROTJ-era Mark Hamill onto...

It looks like they still used a CG model to apply the deepfake onto though. The lip synching and eye movements were still pretty janky. I'm sure shamook told them to just use a look-alike/impersonator and with a matching hairdo for the deepfake and forgo CG altogether, but ILM practically...

It is seven. Next ep due February 9th will be the finale. The finale will setup quite a bit for mando s3. The next show due in the Spring is s1 of Obiwan with Andor following in mid-2022 or q3. Obiwan and Andor are in the same time frame and may even crossover quite a bit so it's curious...

Hopefully Al Swearengen will make a cameo on Tattooine yet.

Would it be easier if you just tell us when it's okay to dislike black people?

Fixed.

Those "masters" presided over the fall of the Republic and the annihilation of the Jedi Order to ONE sith lord. Would you listen to their force ghosts pestering you with "advice" after you had to murder your own father to unfuck their mess?

A better twist would be that Grogu saved himself; maybe for the same reason that he blocked the memory. The clones approach and are about to kill him. He closes his eyes, reaches out with his tiny hands....aaaand dark side force lightning blasts from his fingertips, wracking everyone in the...